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Welcome to Beartown. It’s a friendly town where people with deep roots welcome those who have come from somewhere else, the kind of place where some who have left choose to return.

After a day’s work, Jennifer Garcia drove over from San Antonio and propped a homemade poster drawn by her and her 6-year-old son at an intersection near the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs.

Bible scholar, writer, editor, pastor, and theological librarian Harry Boonstra was a wise, gentle, caring man with a playful side and a dry sense of humor.

A visionary pastor, church planter, teacher, and mentor, Rev. Paul Hahn passed away in Korea on June 20 from cancer at the age of 84.

The people of Geneva Campus (Christian Reformed) Church in Madison, Wisc., commemorated the 500th anniversary...

On Saturday October 28, more than 200 people gathered at Clearview Christian Reformed Church in Oakville, Ont., to sing, create crafts, laugh, and give God “Every Praise” at this fall’s Friendship Festival.

“Want to see what true power really looks like?”

Presbyterian pastor Vito Aiuto and his wife, Monique, otherwise known as The Welcome Wagon, have created another album of unconventional pop songs that dive headfirst into the life of faith.

Bizzy Mizz Lizzie is busier than any other bee in Hivetown. 

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One thing we have learned over the years—too often the hard way...

Bless your heart, preach it!

There isn’t really any way to prepare one’s heart for a horrific tragedy.

Back in the South African apartheid era, I helped organize anti-apartheid efforts in our local community in Michigan.

Our youngest two children were 11 and 15 when we adopted them

“A cord of three strands is not easily broken”

I appreciate your dedication to bringing the Word every Sunday.

Two or three times each year, Christian Reformed churches send representatives to their classis, a regional grouping of churches.

Congregations and communities of believers from all over the Christian Reformed church commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation 

Last month, participating in a project spearheaded by Dignity for All: The Campaign for a Poverty-Free Canada

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